THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURtt, lA. OW AUSTRALIA CARES FOR ORPHANS IE TIGHT LACING CAUSES DEATH A Real Home for Every One, with the State Acting a a Supervising Parent Doctor Ascribes Appendicitis to Dio regard of Hit Warnings Against the Wasp Waist. Cincinnati, Ohio. Tight lacin? caused the death of Elsie Ga.er, IS years old. daughter of John J. Causer, a prominent lawyer here. She was operated uu Jor appendicitis, and fail- ' ed to rally from the operation. Dr. j G. Strohbach. the family physician, I says that the pernicious effects of tho i evil practice of tight lacing in all HAVE NO ASYLUMS OVER THERE i probability had much to io .m, hcr death. He had warned her many time that if she persisted In the tight lacing she would pay dearly for it. Si.e laughed at h.a warnings in her Chicago Physicians Contrasts the Two Systems to the Great Disadvantage cf Ours The State's Guardian Cand Reasonable and Humane. After she had died i Chicago. Dr. Bayard Holmes, a ( Llcago physician, in an article en t.tled "A Continent Without an Or phan Asylum," attacks the methods of caring for orphans in the United States and lauds the Australian sys tem as ideal. He says iu part: "In all things, social as well as geo graphical, is the Commonwealth of Australia antipodal to us. Th com mon law of England prevails there, modified by 301 years of English and a less number of Australian common sense. Our statutes, if not our State Constitutions, make our common law rest where the English common law was iu 1607. But more than this, Aus tralia has a flexible Constitution, and a people who demand decent and rea t (liable legislation and its honest exe- ;i;on. "This is illustrated most leiisivtly by the treatmen 'at'.iC : '.t :..o:.i'.ess infant. In nil this great continent embracing 3, i. ,ii(c square mi'.es and this federa tion of seven commonwealths there is not an orphan or an orphan asylum, there is not a baby farm or a found li:.g asylum, there is not a private eleemosynary body exploiting ihi fa therless and motherless. No commun ity in that great continent has its feel ings, sentiments, or complacency out ragtd by periodic exposures of the enormous death rates in monastery like structures where children are huddled in the name of charity. "It is this way: Every fatherless j and motherless child is a child of the 1 State. The Children's Council, which I is a department of State, at once pro vides a father and mother for the child of the State. Suppose a baby Is found by the police. It is at once taken to the home of a woman desig nated by the Children's Council for i :t service in that precinct. The d.iy the child is taken before Judge of the Juvenile Court, when i.ecessary legal records are made, j prop r officer of the Children's .:;cil then places the child in the ..uj of a foster mother, who cares lor and nurses the child. "Every week the officer of the coun- i til visits the infant, and at regular intervals the council physician and a j voluntary organisation sends also its visitor with delicacies in the way of i clothing. Records are kept at the ofhe of the council, and the foster .other is paid from the treasury of the council a weekly stipend. "As the infant grows older he Is placed iu a home, preferably in the country, where the same inspection continues and a smaller stipend is paid. The child goes to school and the teacher reports to the Children's Council as to a parent. At last the child hires out to work a part of each year. The salary is deposited in the Postal Savings Bank to the child's credit. The regular schooling con tinues, however. The child becomes ambitious, wishes to go a trade school or to a preparatory school. He ap plies to the Children's Council for permission to draw bis savings from the bank for that purpose. The Coun cil acts as a parent would. "No more interesting or heart warming literature can be read than the formal and perfunctory reports of the Children's Council. But we go on here building stone and brick or phan asylums in which the death rate is Incredible among the children. The Baptist, the Methodist, and every oth er Christian denomination ctill has its orphan asylum, conducted by a board, and funds are called for in the name of charity, if not in the name of Christ. The reports do not show the death rate, the terrible condition of the survivors mutilated by the infect! ous diseases and dwarfed by lnetitu tionalism. "When these same children brought up In hotel-like structures arrive at .an age when they ought to be self supporting they are forced out Into a world of which they know nothing. They cannot build a fire, fill or light ,a kerosene lamp, cook the simplest meal, or do the commonest chores. The boys cannot do the barn work, the girls cannot do the housework of a common home. "Neither make good servants, and in the factory they can run only the simplest machines. They are neither strong, quick, nor well. They are Ir reparably unfitted for modern or other life. "We are richer than Australia. Can't we be as reasonable and aa hu mane? Every child is entitled to a mother, a father and a home." light, girli.-h way the doctor aid: t "All girls should heed the constant j preachment of physicians against j tight lacing. Elsie Gasser's death j was caused partially by the fact that she had injured herself by tight lac j ing. That fact should go home to i every girl." j Elsie and her sister went to a pic nic. They ate heartily. It was a happy day for them. When they re j turned home they said they never had had a finer time. That night Elsie i complained cf being ill. She told her i mother she was in great pain. Mrs, '; Caster applied home remedies. They did not sive relief. Noxt morning Dr. Strohbach was sun.moned. He told tif.e s parents lie reared it was ap rer.diciils from which she was suffer ing. Upon his advice an ambulance was summoned and she was taken to the German Deaconess's Hospital. In a few days the sureeons announced I that Dr. Strohb.K-h's diagnosis was compre- (correct. Five of them performed an of the ! orprptior;. The girl had injured her self so brdly in her efforts to have a Eir.?.ll wr.ift i .:-. she could not rally lro.a the shock of passing under the knife. Of Interest to Women A Rap at Girls' riniskinf Schools The Word "finishing," Applied to An Intellectual Traiuiog, is L'afil Reginald W. Kauf Fsian's Iiltas TL Young Girl a Mystery to Kim. THREE F!I!EEHED" BS3WH KiSG OF PITCHERS. ... lAW ,atS, v-y tO'Vc'-" .' l ib.- Reginald Wright Kau7n;r.n m Hampton's Magazine is very h?.i! upon the finishing schools for piiU. After reading what lie says, we wn.i der w hy these schools i hould be c.il il "finishing." The word cr.n hardly U aplied to an intellectual training whirh seems never to have been be.;'.i:i Whatever "education" may have b"en Imparted to her in the earlier gnulcs has made no impression either u; n:i mind or heart She knows exactly what is expected of her in the social game, and whatever remains over and above she ignores: One student of my ncfjuaintanc" has, after a three years' course, man aged to choke down enough French to translate, if there's a dict!on;;r handy, the original liallic phrases en countered in a popular novel; sin knows what the menu is trying ti say, though, of course, neither fVn nor anybody else can translate th:-.t verbatim. If she would take time to complete It but she never takes time to complete anything she might b able to make a fair copy of a Charle. Dana Gibson line draw-ins. She can recite certain charters of the U bic by heart, but knows about as n:u h concerning them as the avorace ac tor knows about the line- of his part And as for literature, rhe lias si en quired the exact date of every s' a' English author's birth and death v.i.h out having any conception of wh any of them wrote, ur.d v.-it ho;; t s-r. ing one hair's bread' h f;-o:n her :-.'.'. giance to the ooiite:ni-jr;;ry t..r.:.-h mallow school of tietirn. The ittnorance of the nver::;:- ::' Is certainly appalling. -r.il we r; i. well wonder what she h;.s iio".e w::'. her time during high srhiol thys. . ;. has acquired books eiK.ag'.i to a store, thanks to the entente c '. . that exists between the sthco.. the publishers. But if v.e :; draw out any of this in Tor:::--; :. v. ELZCTIVE AFFINITIES. An Excerpt from Artemus Ward of Conterrporar.cous Appositness. The ex.cr.ir'.c fetr.ale clutched ne frantically by the ur:u anJ hol!ue;d: "You air n.ir.e. O you air ir.incl" "Si art. el.'." I se J, endtverin to j;'t loi,;e f;i.n her. But (he lu;.g to :aj anl seil : ".iu r.ir r.. A..'.t;crty!" "What i.po: a:th ij :l...t?" I s'-out-ed. "Dot thou not know?" "N.j. I docstentl" "Llr-tcn, man. & I'll tell ye!" srl the strange female: "for years I hav yearned for thee. I knowed tuou wa.-t in the world, sumwhares. tho I didn't know whaic. My hart sed he v.o.ii.l cum and 1 took courage. He bit cu J lie's here you air him you air '"V AHlnerty. O. 'tis too mutchl" auil sho sobl ed ng'n. "Yfr." I lingered. "I V.i'.n'.i It Is a darn siie too r.tutch!" llaF'. thou not ycarsed for r.: :?" she yelled, rinuin' her hanilj liito a fe:-ale plar-actor. "Not a yearn!" I brllcred tt V:.-. : : of i:;y vo!r. thro- in' hcr p way f.o-.i me. Artetnii'? Ward, II. s Amcrg the rrce-!-vtrs. His C-u-'p. "Tcr years and yer.r?." cro-vV.ei'. Ord Cod AT. 1: lis usv.:.l ess. a;, way. "we have h en Fen.liVi n.is.; j arirs to ti'e Chinese ! ar.-.l tih-.ln;-:d or.js, bot'.i v. ;:; -j v. hi.-kcrs. who ?; al:e i.i :.! ' land acted with t!;. chr. ir.t: ' nr.ic of hyenas; C !. . j with weak eyes ar. 1 weaker il; j Eliray, p'JCir? ones, who Wile g ! erir.s material from which rnd with which to fj::.lfh two when tr.ey got u:.c.;; c-.u- . or.e s that looked li'.; a .ly : . : . ' or oM fashioned f'l'. ;r:u. j-:. ; a--; it v yr.ed ; ar.d a rr'.oriov.s of : all of wl.ut.i I.e eil' J I'.'.--' l;;o:ie.v : cor-t v.s a gre.t deal. Ari-!, a'1'.!, gpito of our benefice -ice to th"'...v. the ungrateful Chinese 'pc-nr to Just- as unrt generate ar.d a'.:;. peculiar as they were ia tl.e ;1 place. What say?" to a 1; ..e s t Mordeal Brown, the Chicago National Leasue Star Pitcher. HEN DIGS UP $11,000 JEWELS. Burglars Loot Disclosed Through Her Industrious Scratching. Asbury Park, N. J. The return of nearly $11,000 worth of Jewelry which was taken last April from his home in Lakewood is the cause of great re joicing on the part of William M. Skinner. The whole lot was found by Charles Goldstein, under the front porch of Skinner's residence. The scratching of an Industrious hen under the porch disclosed the Jewels. In the process of scratching a piece of jewelry was turned up, and the attention of Goldstein was attract ed to the spot. His Investigations were v.vll rewarded, for the entire lot taken in April Boon was brought forth from the ground. Goldstein returned I it to the owner. It is thought the thief was afraid to r'.'c-x'H the sale of the jewelry for f,..;- of i.p;prel.e;!sion, and hid the. loot vr.cVr the Skinner porch. Wl - ,i Sliinner went out the hen w,-i !iu:l:ing with pride over a mass elitterinu ceuis the Skinner '"-.v!s. M.. Sliinner will pension the bird for life. Ei '.THING WITH MOTOR TIRES. In shall lamentably f know absolutely iiothin:; t: worth knowing upon any con-.-c.v: subject She has studied civic- - .-. says she has but she lias no .:;: mering of nn opinion upon any . .:. or political subject. :he has nlo-,. li ed her way through books on his- cry. geography, mathematics, and l:'-ra ture, but she is entirely dumb when any intelligent subject is on the car pet. But there are some things, Mr Kauffman tells us, that the girl doe.i know: The last timo she wa3 home I trie-.l to talk to her; we used to make mud pies together and, later, she chewed the spitballs that I threw nt the teach er in the fourth reader; but now I am a mister to her and she is a mystery to me. Well, we talked, or rather she did, and what I received from her was simply a rapid running description of all the season's plays on Broadway. It appears that the school is often taken to the theatre in a body, pro vided the drama to be produced Is not too serious, and that the whole student body go as individuals to Saturday matinees. Consequently, this girl has twenty photographs of Robert Edeson, each in a different pose, on the dressing table, which she used to call a bureau, and knows thj private history and matrimonial record of all the idols of the stage. And this is the equipment for "so ciety" and later on, perhaps, for other and more serious things. It's rather sad when one comes to think about it Professional Cuery. Among the papers of R. li. f-'.o 1 Irt.V. that Ripley Hitchcock .il i i tl.e"-.1 1; a letter which Oliver WenCU !io!:.c: the poet-physici. is saiil to have re ceived. This le'ter ;i written r.-r.'.y yea:s ago by :m Ignorant o ;r. :y pra; titioner. and it is inte -res.'.ir.i b caue it shows the lo-v level to whl- h In ttie early part of ti e last century, it was possible for lacJical t-ducaiio'a to fall. The letter, verbatim, follows: "Dear dock I have a p; :-Uunt whoso physicol sir.es shn.e that the winpipo is ulcerated of and hi. lung hav drop ped into hi:i stur.ikh. He is unabel to swa'.ler and 1 fear his stumick toohe is gone. I have giv him everything without efeck his Father is wealthy honble and influenshul. He is an ac tive member of the M E. church nnd God noes I don't want too loose hlu wot shall I do?" New Collars and Laces. The turnover collar has taken a strong hold upon popular fancy and will no doubt continue to be the pre vailing style until the return of cold weather. It is the most comfortable Idea we have had given us in many seasons, and we should be humbly grateful. Last summer we suffered In collars with abnormal points, stiffly boned and ear high, and one hesi- Poor Uncle Ed. A Baltimore man was recently show. 1m: his nice new opera-hat to his liit'-o nephew, and when he caused the toy piece to spring open three or four time3 the youngster was delighted. A few days thereafter the uncle, during a visit to tho same household, brought with him a silk hat of the shiny, non-collapsible kind. When ho was about to leave the house, he en countered the r.fovesrld yorn''.jr running down the hall with what loo'ced like a black accordion. "Vncle Ed," observed the boy, "this one goes awfully hard. I had to ::t on it; but oven then I couldn't got it more than half-shut." UNAVOIDABLE DELAY. $H A 1 II ,., n;. "Dotte's case of brain fever last-: a a long time, dii'.u't it?" "Yes, the germs lost a lot of tina finding his brain." Lives In Two Towns at Once. Winsted, Conn. Burr Beecher pays one-half of the taxes on his house to llns town and on the other half to the ' town of Norfolk, because his home ttands In both. He eats In one town and sleeps in the other. His bed is ko situated In an upstairs chamber that oftentimes he goes to sleep ia i Norfolk and awakes In the morning In luls town. ei-.aurTeur Starts a New Fashion the Surf at Ostend. London. A new bathing fashion I.'.r been started, at Ostend by a chauffeur who, dressed In scarlet and v th a Phrygian cap, entered the sea with the inflated Inner tube of a mo tor car tire. First he trundled It as a child does a hoop. Then sitting on it as in a live b'luy, ho paddled about, propelling hi: -st'li' w ith his hands or lay basking in H e sun. His enjoyment was so n ivi 'pst that in joke a party of wom en swimmers borrowed the tire and, with shrieks of laughter, imitated his antics. The idea has taken and scores of persons now disport themselves In the sea on the tubes of their motor cars. Impromptu races attract many com petitors, and not to take a tube sun bath to be out of the mod. tates to critlel8e even the elderly per son for wearing the new collar, even If It does add years to her age- For young people the newest and prettiest design Is the collar on the style of a sailor, finished with a four-in-hand tie at the front It is shown in all colors and combinations. White linen is edged with a band of pink, blue tan or lavender, or each of the colors forming a collar Is edged with white. The model sketched is designed In star efTect and trimmed with rows of soutache. Many girls make ouffs to match and wear them with plain Huen and percale waists. Kerosene on Irons. If your wax has given out and the starch sticks to the irons try kero sene. Put a little of the oil on a cloth and rub the hot Iron over It a (ew tlmee. EASTORIA AVcgcfable Preparation. 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It gives t!:e farmer and his family something to think about aside from the humdrum of routine duties. Every Issue Contains an Original Poem by SOLON GOODE WE MAKE THE EXCEPTIONAL OFFER OF Two for the Price of One: THE COLUMBIAN The Oldest County Paper and THE AMERICAN FARMER BOTH ONE YEAR FOR $I.OO This unparalleled offer is made to all new subscribers, and all old ones who pay all arrears and renew within thirty days. Sample copies free. Address : THE COLUMBIAN, " Bloomslmrjr. Pa. How Strange. A woman who visited the British museum recently inquired of an at tendant: "Have you no skull of Crom. well? I have benn looking all around for a skull of Oliver Cromwell." "No, madam," replied tho attendant. "We've never had one." "How very odd I" she exclaimed; "they have a fine one in the museum at Oxford." old A Shifted Burden. "So you sold that miserable mule of yours?" "Yaasir," replied Mr. Erastus Pink ley; "foh real money." "Doesn't It weigh on your consci ence?" "Well, dobs. I'8 done had dat mule on my mind so long, It's kind of a re lief to change off an' git him on nay conscience." 'It is the lit t K- ritt w ithin the lute which i'vjt widt'iiinir. nmkes the music unite." It is just a littli- in the health of a woman often, which jjiHilunl'y takes the etirini: from her sten. the light from her eyes, the rose from her eheek mill the inuin frnm her vii..a Terlmiis the hiijr-heur which 1m- frit'ht- eneii tne woman irom tlie tlm-lv help needed at the heidiming; has heeti the dreaded oiiestioiix. the ohnoxioiis ex. nmiimtioi). the local treatments, of the i home tihvs-kiun. There is no need for these. Nor Is there need for continued Slltlerimr. Dr. I'leive' Knvuritu I'm. scription can he relied on hy every women, suiierint; trom wi at are called "female troubles." to renew tl and cure the disease. Women are as tonished at the results of the use of this medicine. It not only makes weak women "robust and rosy cheeked," but it gives them hack tlie vigor and vitality of youth. This Is not a "pat ent medicine" hut a prescription of known composition in which pure, triple-refined glycerine is used Instead of alcohol. Each little-wrapper hears a full list of Ingredients uion It. Forty of the constables of Brad ford county have held a meeting iu Towanda, and organized the Brad ford County Constables' Associa tion. A committee of three was ap pointed to employ counsel ami" bring a stated case to test the legal ity of tlie County Conmiusioners' ruling that the new :te bill "does not apply to constables aud justices in office, the constables contending that as they are paid by fees, and not by salary, the Constitution doe.i not prohibit them from enjoying the benefit of an increase of fees during their term of office. D'visicn. "The flutor-oli'a is rapidly dividing the public into two classes." "Yes; the quick or the dead." 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